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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER III
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Munde speaks of twins being delivered by Cesarean section.

Franklin gives the instance of a woman delivered at full term of a living child by this means, in whom was also found a dead fetus.

It lay behind the stump of the amputated cervix, in the culdesac of Douglas.

The patient died of hemorrhage.
Croston reports a case of Cesarean section on a primipara of twenty-four at full term, with the delivery of a double female monster weighing 12 1/2 pounds.

This monster consisted of two females of about the same size, united from the sternal notch to the navel, having one cord and one placenta.


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